Thursday, 31 July 2014

A Cheshire businessman's late-night encounter with a drunken woman he met at a West end club ended with each accusing the other of wanting paid sex in his hotel room and the police being called.Company director Paul Craven, 53,
of South Downs Road, Hale, Altrincham, claimed Victoria's Secret employee Ainura Dillon, 39, asked
for £200-£250 for sex, but she insisted it was he who offered to
pay for sexual services.City of London Magistrates Court heard Mr. Craven was arrested for assaulting the married mother-of-two
at Searcys Hotel, Pavilion Road, Knightsbridge on March 7, but they cleared him after a trial.“This is the fourth time I've
flown in from Malaga. I've had to stay in hotels, it's cost me
thousands of pounds and I am innocent,” he told the court.Mrs Dillon admitted drinking beer,
wine, cocktails and champagne, including a bottle bought by the
defendant, and next remebered being in his hotel room after asking
for their taxi to take her home to Wanstead.“From the beginning he offered
money, but I told him: 'No' and that I wanted a taxi. I knew what he
wanted obviously. He wanted sex,” she told the court.“He got angry and threw my bag
from the room into the corridor. He pushed me in the back and started
pulling down my pants.“He held me and pushed me onto
the carpet and started beating my left side. He was holding me with
one hand and with the other was beating my left side without
stopping.“I was thinking I was going to
die. I was thinking this man was not going to stop.”She admitted she was drunk
throughout the encounter, but insisted Mr. Craven had produced three
£50 or €50 notes in the hotel room.Mr. Craven's case was that Mrs
Dillon approached him in the club and asked for a glass of wine and
when they got into a taxi afterwards the driver refused to take her
any further.She then asked for another drink
and the defendant invited her into the hotel bar where he was already
staying, but because it was closed they decided to order wine and
sandwiches via room service.Mr. Craven insists she asked for
payment for sex and at that point he immediately asked her to leave
and did not assault her.

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

A benefit fraud asylum couple, who
masterminded a seven-year £188,000 swindle which involved multiple
aliases and a secret property portfolio financed by taxpayers, were
both jailed yesterday.Congo-born Mother-of-two Nicole
Mwamba, 47, of Campbell Road, Caterham, who received two-and-half
years, lied on mortgage applications that she was a well-paid
professional then repaid the loans with illegally-claimed housing
benefit, Croydon Crown Court heard.She is responsible for bogus
claims totalling £142,000 and her fellow-Congolese second husband
William Kapuya, 47, of Campbell Road, who received fourteen
months, another £46,000.Mwamba was granted permanent leave
to remain in the UK after claiming her first husband was persecuted
for his political beliefs and had all his property and savings
confiscated in their native country.However, after he died his assets
were all transferred to her in the UK without any problems.Investigators discovered that as
recently as 2012 she had also been receiving €736 per month in
benefits from the French welfare system and was using the identity of
a Congolese friend who obtained Belgian residency in her UK scam.

Needy: Kapuya & Mwamba

Prosecutor Miss Francesca Levett
told the court Mwamba bought a house in Beulah Grove, Selhurst for
£165,000 in November, 2004 in a different name to her housing
benefit claim, which began in 1998.She told lenders whe was earning
£42,000 with a housing organisation, despite never working, and
slapped down an £18,000 cash deposit even though insisting she had
no savings or assets in her benefit claim.“This case involves a number of
identities and addresses and throughout her claims Mwamba said she
had no savings or capital,” explained Miss Levett.After buying the Beulah Grove
property Mwamba continued claiming benefits in her different married
name.“She was keen to keep these two
identities appart. This was a calculated and contrived decision by
Mwamba to only give the Department and Work and Pensions (DWP) the
information she wanted them to know.”Meanwhile Kapuya was claiming
housing benefit in Ferndale Road, Brixton and then in Partridge Knoll, Purley while keeping his marriage secret and claimed
an extra severe disability premium while insisting he did not have a
partner.He continues to receive thousands
of pounds of free dialysis treatment on the NHS.When buying the second property
Mwamba told lenders she was a £57,000 a year finance director.“As a benefit claimant she was
poor and needy, but as a mortgage applicant she was successful and
employed,” said Miss Levett.As long ago as December 14, 2005
Mwamba was called in by Croydon council for a compliance interview,
but the frauds continued regardless.Kapuya was still receiving housing
benefit for the Ferndale Road address while living in Campbell Road
when he was arrested on October 11, 2011.Mwamba claimed £1,000 housing
benefit from Tandridge District Council for the same three-bedroom
house, with the money paid into a secret bank account she had failed
to declare.“It was to generate income for
Mwamba to pay her mortgage. Mwamba has never worked and she needed to
pay her mortgage somehow.”She also had an income support
claim under one of her aliases paid into the bank account of her
fifteen year-old daughter.Mwamba was convicted of two counts
of failing to notify a change of circumstances to the London Borough
of Croydon on or about November 3, 2004, in relation to a housing
benefit and council tax benefit claim, namely that she had purchased
52a Beulah Grove.She was similarly convicted of
making false representations in relation to the two benefit claims
regarding the property on or about December 15, 2004 and May 23,
2006.She was also found guilty of
failing to notify a change in circumstances on or about November 23,
2007, namely that she had purchased 66 Campbell Road and making a
false representation in relation to the Beulah Grove and Campbell
Road addresses, namely failing to declare she lived with her partner.Mwamba was also convicted of three
counts of fraud against Tandridge District Council between December
5, 2007 and February 9, 2011; two counts of making false
representation to the DWP regarding property ownership and failing to
notify a change of circumstances to the DWP.Kapuya was convicted of four
counts of fraud against Croydon council in that he failed to disclose
he was living with Mwamba and that he needed housing and making a
false representation to the council in relation to a housing benefit
and council tax benefit claim regarding the Purley Knoll home.He was also found guilty of making
a false representation to the DWP regarding a severe disability
premium claim, which would have inceased his existing income support
payments.

Monday, 28 July 2014

A UCL professor, who has fathered 58 children via his "one stop shop" insemination service, is facing imprisonment after molesting a wannabe single mum who used his services.

Professor Gennadij Raivich, 51, a perinatal neuroscientist at University College London - who also has three children of his own - coined the phrase 'Artificial Insemination Plus', which promised sexual 'extras' to donors - namely oral sex.

The victim, 31, travelled from her Cambridgeshire village to his London home and had to repeatedly perform oral sex on him to obtain the samples she craved, Blackfriars Crown Court heard during the two-week trial.

Raivich, of Rashleigh House, Thanet Street, St. Pancras was convicted of two counts of sexually assaulting the woman, who was groped between the legs and had her breasts touched, and he was released on bail until September 30 for a pre-sentence report.

This conviction can be reported for the first time after a Contempt of Court Act order was lifted after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced they would not be pursuing a retrial in relation to eight more counts the jury could not agree on.

"The CPS made the decision not to proceed with a retrial on any charges the jury couldn't agree on," said William Clegg QC, defending.

The two other complainants, both 26 year-old lesbians, also told the court the defendant abused them, but the jury were unable to reach verdicts in relation to one count against the first and seven counts against the second.

Raivich carried a "donation kit" containing a dvd player, which he watched pornography on, rubber gloves and a speculum and pipette and was happy to carry-out home visits.

Fifteen satisfied female 'customers' from all over the country spoke in his defence, including a police officer, maths teacher and lecturer, some of whom had two and in one case three of his children via Artificial Insemination (AI).

Prosecutor Mr. Tom Wilkins told the jury: "You have to ask yourselves what kind of woman agrees to meet a complete stranger, they do not even know his real name, for AI.

"Someone who is desperate and is prepared to put up with the potential embarrassment and humiliation and who have kept the details from their friends and families.

"A perfect victim for sexual assault, someone unlikely to complain.

"Compare the women to this defendant, someone who has traded on the fact he is a doctor and paraded his scientific knowledge, impressing them with his apparent expertise.

"What kind of man embarks on a breeding programme to have as many children as possible?

"You will have to ask yourselves if he knows as much as he claims.

"You may feel there is a high degree of narcism in what he has done and is sexually motivated in some of these transactions.

"He provided a one stop shop for women who wanted semen. All were desperate to have a baby."

Raivich's service was informal and did not conform to the guidelines of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and he often used the pseudonym 'Frank Qualman'.

Raivich told the victim that her chances of becoming pregnant were increased if she orgasmed during the insemination process.

The prosecution accept Raivich is a qualified doctor in Germany, but has always been an academic scientist and has never practiced medicine and is not registered with the General Medical Council.

"On the websites he advertises his services as a sperm diner and represents himself as a: 'Medical doctor based in Central London' providing a service called Intra-Cervical Insemination or ICI."

In a video-recorded police interview played to the jury the woman said: "He kept asking for AI Plus because it would make things quicker.

"He laid sofa cushions on the floor and was taking his trousers off and said he wanted AI Plus because it would be quick and he did not have time to provide the sample himself.

"With my baby brain I agreed to AI Plus and he took his underwear off and lay on the floor and I performed AI Plus and the donation was ready in thirty seconds.

"While I was doing AI Plus he asked me to take my clothes off so he could touch me.

"I said I did not mind doing AI Plus, but did not want to do anything else, but he put his hand on my bottom over my jeans then kept trying to put his hands down my waistband and up my top."

Raivich also groped her between her legs during the sessions. "He told her an orgasm would help her conceive," added Mr. Wilkins.

"She told him three or four times not to touch her there, but he went ahead regardless and now he says he can't recall stimulating her in this way.

"He was not the altruistic donor, but someone who is sexually-motivated.

"She was desperate for a baby and returned a week later for a donation in return for performing oral sex on him and felt she had to put up with it, she had been trying for a baby for a year."

The first lesbian complainant saw Raivich on February 27, 2012 when "wholly gratuitously and without warning" he inserted two to three of this fingers into her vagina for three to five seconds, the jury were told.

The third victim was visited twice by Raivich at the home she shared with her lesbian partner in Great Yarmouth and she told the court things started badly when she walked into the living-room during the defendant's 'preparation'.

"When I walked in his trousers were undone, which made me feel uncomfortable and I turned up the tv for him. His button and zip were undone and I sort of ran out of the room quite fast back upstairs.

"I was waiting for him to turn around before I got undressed. He told me not to be shy, that I had nothing to worry about and stood there with a scary smile on his face, glaring at me.

He then lifted up my top and started to grope my boobs. I just froze, he hadn't done it the previous time so I knew it was not right.

"He lifted my t-shirt up and moved my bra away from my breasts. He was just groping my boobs, squeezing them and smiling.

"He was looking at me, just smiling, it was like something out of a horror movie the way he was looking at me.

"I pushed my top down and he continued to smile at me and started to push his fingers inside me, which again I knew was wrong. He hadn't previously done this.

"He then pushed down on my clitoris, he just smiled at me. I just wanted him to get out of the bedroom, I wanted it to be over, my whole body just froze."

Sunday, 27 July 2014

The drunken wife of a disgraced ex-Coutts banker was caught driving her husband's car hours after watching him receive three years imprisonment at the Old Bailey for laundering the proceeds of his son's £10m fraud.

Housewife Linda Noad, 58, of Uplands, Stonehouse Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, sobbed in the dock of Bromley Magistrates Court last friday as she recalled simply getting into the vehicle to feel close to her incarcerated husband.

She pleaded guilty to driving his blue Honda Accord in Broke Farm Road, Orpington in the early hours of July 15 with 73 microgrammes of alcohol in her breath - the legal limit is 35.

Mrs Noad had spent the day before her arrest at the Central Criminal Court, where Roger Noad, 60, who worked at the prestigious bank for thirty years, was imprisoned for allowing "eye-watering" sums of cash to be channeled through his accounts.

Their son Matthew, 27, currently serving four years and eight months, had orchestrated a land investment swindle, which targeted pensioners in a cold-calling scam, who then invested their savings with the promise of big returns.

He made around £1.2m and £655,000 was funnelled through his father's bank accounts, all while still living with his parents.

Mrs Noad herself was charged with money laundering, but the jury failed to reach a verdict in relation to her.

"We'd been on trial, me and my husband, at the Old Bailey and he got three years," she told the court. "Me and my son left the Old Bailey at 5.30pm and we were drinking.

"I don't normally drink and I went to bed and I felt really bad because I had never been apart from my husband for thirty-five years.

"I got up and sat in his car and then started driving down the road and thought to myself: 'What are you doing?'

"I decided to turn around and the police were there."

She was fined £100, with £85 costs, ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and was disqualified from driving for twenty months.

Saturday, 26 July 2014

Police arrested a teenager after two lawyers halted court proceedings to tell a judge a waiting defendant was masturbating a few feet from them.

Parvinder Aullakh, 19, of Weald Way, Hayes, Middlesex was seated in the well of the packed courtroom as another case progressed when he was pointed out.

"There is an issue. He's got his bits out," solicitor Wahida Aktar told District Judge Kenneth Grant at Hammersmith Magistrates Court, pointing to her left and leaning away in repulsion.

Another lawyer, sitting next to her, told the judge: "He had his erect penis out and was masturbating."

Aullakh was appearing on a common assault charge, but Mr. Grant ordered him to leave and a plain-clothed police officer, who was sitting behind the defendant and unaware of what he was doing, detained him outside.

Friday, 25 July 2014

Court action against Lord Charles Brockett for unpaid council tax on his Fulham flat was withdrawn by his local authority yesterday during a short hearing at Hammersmith Magistrates Court.

The peer, 62, of The Piper Building, Peterborough Road, Fulham, (pictured) had faced a complaint for a council tax liability order for non-payment of council tax and costs of £1,367.52 brought by the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

The demand related to his address at the landmark west London building, where a penthouse flat is currently on the market with an asking price of £2.65m.

His full name is Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, Third Baron Brocket.

Eton-educated Lord Brockett was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1996 for £4.3m insurance fraud involving four of his vintage cars.

He served as a Lieutenant in the 14th/20th King's Hussars and the former playboy pal of Prince Charles once owned 42 Ferraris amongst his classic car collection.

In 2004 he appeared in 'I'm A Celebrity…….Get Me Out Of Here!' and went on to present several other television programmes.

He inherited eighteenth century Brocket Hall, near Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, which he converted into a hotel and conference venue and leases to a German consortium - Brocket Hall International

The father-of-four was last month stopped by police taking possession of £2m worth of art and antiques, which he claimed belonged to the trustees of the estate.

He pleaded not guilty that between January 1, 2010 and July 31, 2012 at Old Church Street, Chelsea he stole two necklaces belonging to Tamara Ecclestone, 30, and he was bailed unconditionally to appear at Isleworth Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on August 5.

Prosecutor Mr. Vijay Khuttan told the court: "He's stolen from his ex-partner, but he says he was handed these items after the break-up. He says he had permission."

The prosecutor described the offence as a "breach of trust" and said the magistrates court had insufficient powers to order full compensation in the event of a conviction.

Tamara is the daughter of billionaire Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone, 83, and has starred in her own reality TV series 'Billion Dollar Girl.'

Tamara and her sister Petra, 25, are familiar faces on the party circuit and she knew her boyfriend of two-and-a-half years as 'Omar Khyami' after meeting him at Mayfair celebrity haunt restaurant 'Cipriani'

She once described him as her "soulmate" and had name tattooed on her hip - since replaced by pink ribbon

He attended private school Emmanuel College, Clapham.

The couple split two years ago after a sex-tape revealed Al-Khyami cheating on her while wearing two £30,000 Cartier love bangles she'd bought him.

Tamara, who now lives in a 55-room £45m Kensington mansion, said of her then-boyfriend in 2012: "I know Omar's the right person because I have never been so happy. I trust him completely. Deep down you know when someone loves you for who you are and not what you have.

"I think I'm a good judge of character. Omar and I definitely want to get married. I think in the next few years hopefully we will tie the knot."

in June, last year she married Jay Rutland and gave birth on March 17, this year to Sophia Ecclestone-Rutland.

He
said: "Gerard Morgan is a dangerous offender who exploited a
very vulnerable child for his own sexual needs.

“The
victim has shown courage in reporting Morgan, who has now been
convicted and will go to prison for a long time, safeguarding other
children.

On
release he will be monitored as a registered sex offender."

Detective
Chief Inspector Pete Thomas, also of SOECA, said: "Gerard Morgan
is every parent's nightmare, a sex offender who targets children and
tries to beguile them with presents and compliments.

"I
believe there will be other victims and I urge them to tell us about
what has happened.

“I
would also encourage anyone who has been a victim of sexual
exploitation or grooming, or someone who may have information about
offenders targeting children, to call us, so we can protect other
children."

Monday, 21 July 2014

A
knife-wielding midnight mugger, who murdered a pregnant prostitute he
stabbed twice in the chest as he cycled around east London looking
for victims, has been caged for life.

Farooq
Shah, 21, of Station Road, Forest Gate had robbed a vulnerable victim
less than an hour earlier then targeted 24 year-old Romanian Mariana
Popa – the mother of a six year-old child who had only been in the
UK a few weeks.

He
must serve twenty-nine years before he can be considered for parole
and received a six-year concurrent term for the first mugging.

He
was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of murdering Mariana in Ilford
Lane, Redbridge, shortly before midnight on October 28, last year.

He
was also found guilty of a knife-point mugging in nearby Upton Park
the same night, when he robbed a partially-sighted man in his
fifties.

Detective
Inspector Darren Richards said: "This was a cold-blooded,
senseless murder by a man who went out that night, armed with a
knife, intent on using it to commit serious injury to someone.

"He
had already threatened and robbed a vulnerable man with a knife
earlier that night, and he was hanging around the Ilford Lane area,
looking for another victim.

“He
killed Mariana because she was there, because he thought he could get
away with it.

“In
doing so, he has deprived a young daughter of her mother. Our
thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of
Mariana."

The
murder investigation was launched by officers from the Homicide and
Major Crime Command after police were called by the London Ambulance
Service at approx 00:15am on Tuesday, October 29, to reports of a
woman injured in Ilford Lane, near the junction with Loxford Lane.

Officers
attended and she was treated for a stab injury and she was taken to
an east London hospital where she died at 01:53am.

The
post-mortem examination ascertained that she died from shock and
haemorrhage and stab wounds to the chest.

Mariana,
who has a six year-old daughter, had been spoken to by police three
times that night and she had been issued with a caution for
soliciting.

CCTV
footage proved critical in this case, and approximately 400 hours was
reviewed over the course of the investigation.

Police
recovered the footage from a number of cameras along the road, one of
which had actually caught the murder taking place.

It
shows Mariana walking along with a man on a bicycle, when he is seen
to take a knife from his back pocket and stab her twice in the chest.

He
then makes off towards Loxford Lane on his bike, while Mariana
manages to make her way to a nearby shop where she collapsed.

Through
the footage, detectives were able to trace the attacker to an area
around St. Francis Way.

During
door-to-door enquiries on November 6, officers discovered a bicycle
matching the description of that seen in the CCTV footage.

Shah
was inside the flat and, finding he fitted the description of the
murderer, he was immediately arrested.

At
the address, police found a bag belonging to Shah that matched one
worn by the murderer in the footage; they also recovered a Samsung
Galaxy phone which Shah had given to his friend, who was present at
the flat.

Enquiries
revealed that the phone had been taken during a knife-point robbery
in Harold Road, Upton Park, at approx 11.00pm on the night of October
28.

CCTV
footage had already shown that the murderer had been travelling from
that direction to Ilford Lane.

That
victim was partially sighted, but crucially was able to describe his
assailant's distinctive thick beard.

Sunday, 20 July 2014

A
sex offender – who targeted three girls when he was a young teen
himself – is starting a two-and-a-half year sentence after the
victims broke two decades of silence.

Damien
Walters, 32, of St. Asaph Road, Brockley sexually abused the children
between 1995 and 200.

One
of the victims was only six or seven years-old when the sex attacks
began and Walters was thirteen years-old.

He
was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of four counts of indecent
assault.

Detectives
from the Metropolitan Police's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and
Child Abuse Command (SOECA) were contacted by the trio, who stated
Walters had assaulted them in the Deptford area of south-east London.

Friday, 18 July 2014

Police
continue to hunt a mystery would-be killer - whose victim has been
left with a bullet lodged in his head after a south London shooting
as he walked home from work last year.

A
reward of up to £20,000 has been offered for information that will
identify who shot the 28 year-old Chinese national just after
midnight on a Tulse Hill council estate.

The
victim was shot at close range outside Fairview House, Roupel Estate
on September 1 by a lone gunman, clad head to foot in black with his
face obscured by a zipped hoodded top.

After
being shot in the back of the head the victim managed to make his way
home where the alarm was raised and he was rushed to Kings College
Hospital.

He
was treated and discharged three days later and the bullet remains in
his head.

Despite
numerous inquiries officers have been unable to identify the suspect
for the attempted murder which is believed to have been a completely
unprovoked attack.

Nothing
was stolen from the victim so officers do not believe robbery to be a
motive.

The
£20,000 reward is offered for information which would lead to the
identification, arrest and prosecution of the person responsible.

The
suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5’ 7” tall,
in his late teens or early twenties, wearing a black hooded top -
zipped up to the nose - and black jeans.

Detective
Chief Inspector Jason Prins of Trident Gang Crime Command, said:
"This was a shocking incident whereby a young man walking home
from work in the early hours of the morning was shot at close range.

“Understandably
he and his family are very distressed by this apparently motiveless
and senseless attack.

“The
gun used in the attack was some form of self-loading pistol which was
shot at very close range.

"I
would like to reassure any potential witnesses who may be worried
about making contact with police that Trident has extensive expertise
in protecting witnesses and there are a range of measures that can be
taken to protect you."

Members
of the public with any information can contact the Trident South
investigation team on 020 8247 4877 or call Crimestoppers anonymously
on 0800 555 111.

Thursday, 17 July 2014

A jobseeker, who deliberately lied
to the Department of Work and Pensions about his assets when applying
to sign-on for benefits totalling £7,926 has been convicted today.Jemmie Williams, 46, of Estreham
Road, Streatham denied, but was found guilty by an Inner London Crown
Court jury of one count.He was convicted of dishonestly
making on February 4, 2010 a false statement to obtain a benefit,
advantage or payment, namely Jobseekers Allowance, which was false,
namely that the information provided on a customer statement was
correct and complete, whereas he failed to declare capital.Williams was sentenced to a
twelve-month community order, which includes a requirement to
complete one hundred and fifty hours community service.He was also ordered to pay £7,926
compensation to the Department of Work and Pensions, £1,000 costs
and a £60 victim surcharge.

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

An anglican priest at a landmark South Kensington church has finally been cleared after two trials of sexually abusing two young alter boy brothers in the vicarage during weekend sleepovers.

Father Kenneth Hewitt, 84, was accused of bathing the boys - who visited separately - and getting into bed with them and molesting them at St. Augustine's Church, Queen's Gate.

He was also said to have plied one of the youngsters with sherry and port during the 'grooming' process the respective juries were told at Isleworth Crown Court.

The brothers attended St. James Independent Boys School across the road from the church and the elder said he was abused between the ages of nine and ten years-old and the younger sibling said he was aged seven to fourteen years-old.

They are now aged 42 and 38 respectively and the youngest claimed he was molested thirty to forty times by Father Hewitt, who took him to museums, restaurants and shops and treated him to alcohol and ice cream at the vicarage, where he also showed him Victorian books featuring naked children.

Prosecutor Mr. Subhankar Banerjee told the first trial pupils were encouraged to become alter boys at the church - a favourite of late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman - and the defendant himself was particularly popular.

"He was someone people could trust and respect and was considered nicer than a lot of the teachers."

Father Hewitt was friendly with the boys' mother, who allowed her sons to sleepover at the vicarage, believing the defendant to be a good "mentor" for her sons.

The older boy only stayed twice, once after a church service and once after school.

"He says he had to have a bath and Father Hewitt walked in and then placed the boy's pyjamas on his bed and said that's where he would be sleeping"

Father Hewitt allegedly described the youngster as his "special boy" and made "grunting noises" as he molested him.

Three weeks later the scenario was repeated with the defendant washing the boy between his legs and inserting his finger into the complainant's bottom, the jury were told.

The defendant "lingered" around the boys's bottom when towelling him off, explained Mr. Banerjee, and again molested him in the bed.

On another occasion the boy was changing into alter clothing for a church service when Father Hewitt approached, said the prosecutor.

"He said he would smooth out his clothes and rubbed his penis over the gown and said: 'There you are. You look special'."

The younger brother stayed overnight every two to three weeks for several years and says Father Hewitt bathed him, lingering between his legs.

The priest also asked the boy to wash him and took him to bed, where he was abused, the jury were told.

"These activities took place thirty to forty times," said Mr. Banerjee. "The same thing happened four or five times when the defendant took him to a bungalow in Norfolk."

The defendant was questioned by police in April, last year. "He denied anything of a sexual nature ever happened."

Father Hewitt, of Bromley College, London Road, Bromley was found not guilty to five counts of indecently assaulting the older brother between June 15, 1980 and June 16, 1982.

He was also cleared of two counts of repeatedly indecently assaulting the younger brother between May 13, 1982 and May 14, 1989, plus one count of indecency with a child in relation to the same complainant.